Markkula Center of Applied Ethics

Karen Peterson-Iyer

   

 

 

Program Specialist in Health Care Ethics

kpetersoniyer@scu.edu
(408) 554-7891

Karen Peterson-Iyer is program specialist in health care ethics at the Center, where she undertakes various research projects funded by the Honzel Family Foundation. She has authored papers and studies for the Center on ethics and genetics, public policy, and cross-cultural medicine.

Peterson-Iyer comes to the Center with a background in ethics scholarship and teaching, social justice-based journalism, and campus ministry. She is the author of Designer Children: Reconciling Genetic Technology, Feminism, and Christian Faith (Pilgrim Press, 2004), as well as various scholarly articles in biomedical, sexual, and general ethics. Before working at the Center, she taught Christian Ethics and Biomedical Ethics in the SCU Religious Studies Department as well as at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She has also worked in campus ministry and on the writing and editorial staff of Sojourners magazine in Washington, D.C. Peterson-Iyer holds a doctorate in religious ethics from Yale University, a master's of divinity from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif., and a bachelor's in political science from Stanford University.